[Simon_O_Rourke]

Unfortunately I know of one engineer right now who is basically completely impervious to getting fired, simply because they keep waving around some self diagnosis of being especially sensitive, not on the spectrum mind, just easily offended by trivial issues. Even going to the trouble of writing a blog about their challenges at work for being called out for doing no work, and then playing the victim. I think management have done the math and figured continued employment costs less that legal fees if they were fired.

[jtwebman]

More likely it is just that they have a bad manager not willing to go through the process of firing them. I know as a manager firing people sucks but you sometimes need to do it to keep the rest working the best together. Companies do make it really hard sometimes.

[loonster]

As a non manager, keeping parasites around is bad for moral.

[Jensson]

Firing them is also bad for morale, for different reasons. Only solution is to not hire parasites in the first place.

[david38]

It’s not. People who work hard don’t like when others are doing little and getting paid.

It makes them question why THEY are the suckers doing the hard work.

[leaflets2]

I suppose keeping "parasites" around, until eventually slowly slowly firing them, is the worst?